Victor and His Monster

It had been two days since victor had first awoken at Sweet Apple Acers and he had been trying to learn how to walk on all fours. He was leaning on a tree, eating an apple, watching Applejack and Big Mac work. He had discovered that he was a unicorn yesterday when he he'd tripped head first into a tree and was stuck in it for about thirty minutes before rarity had helped him get it out.

It was a beautiful day outside, there was a rainbow in the sky, his thoughts wondered to the last time he had seen a day like this in Geneva. That reminded him of his dear beloved, who was killed by his own creation. This brought him to think of his monster that was no doubtedly going to be a problem if he wasn't dealt with. But another thought crossed his mind we have mutual need, perhaps ewe can work together to ensure we become free from this backwards land of magic . This thought brought him to the days of his youth, when he had studied to be an alchemist. Wait, this is a place of magic, my informal training may very well be put to use here .

He looked up at the rainbow and he had seen it was growing. He knew the weather patterns where directly controlled by the pegasus of this land. His face flashed as the realization of what the rainbow was hit him. He moved back into the shade of the tree. Whenever Rainbow Dash was around things got awkward, his attempts to woo her where a bit to successful, and he was pretty sure that she thought he was playing "hard to get".

Suddenly the rainbow stopped right in front of Applejack and Big Mac, Rainbow Dash was talking with her back to Victor. Big Mac dry heaved and Applejack nearly threw up as her hat fell off. What could be causing them such distress Victor wondered.

Applejack was pointing in Victor's direction and Rainbow Dash looked at him. She flew over to him and was in his face, she backed off with a blush. "Victor" she started "you have to come to Ponyville with the Apples".

Victor was puzzled "why?"

"There's been a murder and the mayor wants all the ponies to come to town".

Victor's mind was reeling A murder, of who, on don't let this be like Geneva. "Who was killed?"

"Diamond Tiara, just a foal!" Rainbow Dash said starting to sob.

"You were close?"

"No"

Victor was truly puzzled now, her reaction to the death of a fellow pony was genuine, perhaps if man where like this then I could have revealed my monster before Justine had been put to death, or even before my brother had been strangled. But this reaction also told him yet another advantage he had over these ponies. He could and would lie to protect himself.

"Then we are to go into town" Victor said trying his best to sound mournful. The truth of the matter was that he was hoping to take advantage of the trip and see how the other ponies lived.

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Victor was leaning on Big Mac as they strolled into the town. "So who is this Diamond Tiara?" Victor asked half heartily.

"She's Filthy Rich's little girl" Granny Smith answered.

"And he is..." Victor trailed off hoping one of them would finish his sentence.

"The richest stallion in all of Ponyville" Applebloom finished.

"Were you and this poor foal friends?" Victor asked facing her.

"No" Applebloom said bluntly.

"Oh, I see. Was she really that bad?"

"Yes!"

"Now, now. You shouldn't speak I'll of the dead, sis" Applejack told her with an authority that Victor had not seen before.

Victor was distracted by something else he had seen. "What's the name of that forest?" he asked pointed with his hoof to the Everfree forest.

"Oh that's just the Everfree Forest. Don't worry none of the things that live there come out, usually."

"Yes, I am completely convinced by your certainty." Victor said sarcastically.

He looked back at the forest, there was a large creature on the edge of it. Victor didn't have to be smart to see exactly what had happened. His monster was hiding in the forest. "This is Geneva all over again" he murmured under his breath.

"Pardon?" Applejack asked.

"Oh nothing." Victor said quickly, not realizing he had said that out loud.

"What's Geneva?" Applebloom asked, apparently having heard him.

"Geneva is the place where I was raised and were my family comes from" he explained deflecting from the rest of his earlier statement.

"Never heard of it!" Granny Smith said a little too loud.

"I wouldn't have expected you to" Victor stated "Geneva is very, very far away in a land called Switzerland."

"Where's that?" Applebloom asked giving him some of the widest eye' she had ever seen.

Those eyes compelled him to tell the truth, but he knew he couldn't "it's deep in the mountains, and far away" He answered vaguely.

"We're here" Applejack announced to Victor.

Victor looked around the tow and found it to look rather quaint. "So, where is this investigation taking place?" He asked half heartedly.

As soon as he had said that another voice came from a In the town "Applejack you're here" it was the voice of Twilight Sparkle. He had been informed of her royal status so he bowed to her, even though not a single pony ever did.

"Howdy Twilight, you remember Victor" she said as she pointed to the bowing Victor.

"Hello Victor, I've told you, you don't need to bow to me."

"Forgive me Princess” Victor said apologetically.

Twilight rolled her eyes, Victor had apologized before for this but he still always bowed to her. “So Applejack, I assume you are the here for the investigation?”

“Yah, can you believe that poor Diamond Tiara was the victim?”

“May I talk to you alone Aj” Twilight whispered in her ear.

“Sure Twilight” she said puzzled.

I don’t like where this is going Victor thought to himself.

“Aj, there are four suspects” Twilight said as soon as they were out of ear shot.

“What? Who?” Applejack stammered.

“There are four suspects and two of them live with you” Twilight said calmly.

“Which two?”

“Big Mac and Victor. It was determined that a stallion was the killer, and they don’t have alibis.” Twilight said explaining to her.

“When was the murder?” Applejack asked.

“It was soon after night fall.”

“Well, there ya’ll go Big Mac was with me and Applebloom around that time.”

“What about Victor?” Twilight asked stealing a look at him.

“He went to bed early” Applejack said.

“Are you sure, that’s a very lose alibi. The investigator won’t like that”.

“Who is the investigator anywise?”

“Sherlock Holmes”.

“That investigator who appeared out of the blue after we destroyed that weird army?”

“That’s the one.”

Victor had wondered off and was walking by an alleyway when he was grabbed by magic and dragged down the alley. Victor tried to open his mouth but it was sealed by the magic.

“Victor, you have no idea how hard it is to find you” said a familiar voice.

“Monster? Why have you done this?” Victor demanded.

“How else was I to get you in town? I made the kill look like you could have done it but I planted that foal’s tiara on another stallion. Don’t worry, you won’t be discovered.”

“Monster, how have these last few days been to you.” Victor asked.

“Well enough but we need to get back to our realm, this place is apparently one of the focal points in between the realms.”

“How do you know this?”

“I met a pale pony who was in the same boat as us. Apparently when he tore a hole in the realm, this realm had been tearing holes into others and sucking things in, like us.”

“So there are more ponies like us hiding among the others?”

“Yes, just thank good god almighty that these inhabitants of Equestria don’t ask to many questions”

“Monster I must go lest they get suspicious of me” Victor said quickly.

“Yes I agree” the monster nodded then disappeared out the back of the alleyway.

“There ya’ll are, we’ve been looking everywhere for you.” Applejack said as he exited the alleyway. “Why were ya in there?”

“Oh, I just saw something peculiar” Victor said vaguely.

“Well the investigator wants to see you” she said.

“Well best not keep him waiting” Victor said with a wink.

“Hello my name is Sherlock Holmes” the investigator said to him. The investigator was wearing a black coat and had a pale blue coat of fur with a black curly mane.

“You’re an Englishman!?!” Victor shouted in surprise.

Holmes recognized his accent and he said calmly  “And you’re Swiss.”

“How did you end up here?”

“Shush, Come with me.”

Victor fallowed and so did a stallion that had been standing next to Holmes. This stallion had a pale yellow coat of fur and short cut blond mane. They stopped in an alleyway “Why are we here?” Victor asked.

“By the authority of the land Watson and I are not allowed to discover where we come from in public and we are to pass that message on to anyone we meet along our travels. Now listen I’m not going to condemn you but I have to know, did you kill this foal?”

“No but I know who did it…”

“Don’t tell me I’ll get it was it the red stallion?”

Victor’s face went grim “Sir, My name is Victor Frankenstein and…”

“It was your monster wasn’t it?”

Victor went cold “Ho...How…di…did…you…kn…know…ab…about…my…mon…mon…monster?”

“You’ll meet a captain and he’ll write down your story and publish it. It’s actually a good read.”

“Oh, please I beg of you do not revel my monster to the ponies here” Victor begged.

“I have no such intentions, but tell me is there a reason that I can pin this on someone else. The ponies here do not like unsolved cases…”

“No you don’t like unsolved cased Sherlock” the other stallion said grumpily.

“Watson don’t interrupt” Sherlock scorned.

Sherlock turned towards Victor “Listen I’m going to send a slip to my bank in Canterlot they will send a sum of money to you. You need to make a house on the outskirts of town and begin using your knowledge of alchemy to create a portal to get us all home. But first tell me have you met the pale pony Lich yet?”

“No but my monster has” victor replied.

“That unicorn tore the first portal open and he tries to help us the best way he can” Watson said with bitterness in his voice.

“You know I’m an academic, not an alchemist.” Victor said clarifying.

“Yes, but in your life story it was shown that you spent many years studying to be an alchemist, well here you can put those skills to use” Sherlock said assuredly.

“Watson we’ll be returning to our flat in Canterlot once we are done here, and Victor the funds to build a house should arrive in about two weeks.”

“Right” Watson said as he turned and went away.

“Where’s he going?” Victor asked curiously.

“He’s going to procure train tickets to Canterlot” Sherlock explained to Victor.

“Now I need to pretend to look for the killer, so we can go as soon as possible”.

“Did you notice that she is missing her tiara?” victor asked.

“Of course” Holmes said insulted.

“Well, my monster said he planted evidence in the house of someone he figured that was strong enough to have killed her in that way.”

“It’s a backup plan if they don’t like my excuse to return to Canterlot”